Category: Random

I AM NOT PREPARED. I don’t know what I’m saying. Also, my brain hurts!

My brother’s inverted lens is awesome though 🙂

My left ear hurts.

A few weeks ago my right ear hurt.

🙁

For some reason my ultimate ears aren’t as tightly connected as my old Audio Technicas. Those things used to be awesome until I got my new headphones. I never had an issues with my ATs, but these UEs tend to squidge around really loudly in my ears, especially with the way I walk. And basically it turns out if I’m even slightly careless and end up tangling my arms and legs with my cords (yes), I end up tugging the actual headphone out, but the actual bud stays in my ear (luckily it doesn’t get stuck there), and somehow this rip causes a lot of pain and ends up leaving my ear ringing for a good hour.

I kind of want to go back to my ATs because they didn’t kill me when I was careless, but then again I am being bad.

I also I want more fivefingers. And turns out cultured butter doesn’t taste like off milk. 🙂

I don’t think I’ll ever understand why women love shoes and heels. Maybe it’s because my feet are funny. I decided to buy some sort of heels the other day that were only slightly pointy-open-toed, and wore them for one day… and then everything died. It was so hard to walk and keep balanced, and it’s not because I’m unco. I have incredible toe strength for balance and ultimate control! Basically my big toes were dying and all my other toes were being crushed, and I couldn’t jump, run or walk as fast as I usually do. I was going to blame it on having wide feet, but now I am proud of them and the fact that I can splay my toes out like a monkey. This means I have the awesome ability to trick 6 year olds into thinking I have magical feet that can pick up mugs and pass them around.

I mean, if you wear heels you get no backward stability and squashed toes means no forward stability so you fall over with a little bit of a shove. Also tiny heels might hurt if you get stepped on by them but fat heels are the way to go for crushing bugs. Unless your aim is really good. Also heels and pointy toes lead to ugly and deformed feet that won’t fit into five fingers, and bleed when blisters form and then you end up having to throw potatoes at it. I just realised all that probably made very little sense outside of my head.

Either way, I think I am destined to wearing five fingers and thongs since my feet are too sensitive barefoot and no other shoes fit me 100%. Plus I am the super destroyer of any kind of heel, even flat ones because I stomp.

ITS SPUNKY FUNKY MONKEY TIME

HAPPY NEW YEARS

Since it’s a new year I should start replacing some of my skin care products. I have years-old Body Shop stuff, but I want to replace it with fresh stuff. The thing I like about Lush is that they use real fruit and stuff, so it feels better – smashing bananas and whatnot into my face.

Aesop also uses real ingredients but is a more high end product, so therefore is more expensive. However, some items are cheaper (compared to Lush). So this time I will have a combination of Lush and Aesop and phase out most of the Body Shop.

… and last year I figured I was poor and would stop buying these things. Hey, I’m downgrading! Gak, I will miss you.

FRUIT SMASH

So today I found out that iiNet bought Internode, which now makes the iiNode machine. That was very exciting news indeed, and probably means a lot of changes to everything internet related and another attack from TPG prevented. Yaaaay!

Also, I ate two fruit mince pies today. I have a weird relationship with fruit mince pies. I don’t particularly like the flavour but I do enjoy them as they only come out once a year. The ones from Pattison’s Pattiserie are the best. Can’t remember what the ones from Baker’s Delight taste like, but the ones from Workshop Espresso are a little too dry for my liking (also they are $4), and the ones from Becasse in Westfield Sydney are too moist and large, becoming a rather overwhelming experience for me. Since the Pattison’s are only $2.50 and have just the right balance of fruit and jam for the perfect size and moistness, they are the most awesome 🙂

And there’s more P in the fact that I now have half a wardrobe full of Pilgrim clothes. I like that store, and Portmans for some reason. They have really pretty stuff and it gets way cheaper than RRP, though technically they’re still a little on the expensive side.

PIEEEEEE

Hooray for the Galaxy Nexus!

Finally got released today, so I decided to visit the (apparently) single Telstra store to go check the price of one. I was thinking about buying it online as I was worried the outright price would have been over $900, but I got a mostly pleasant surprise when I found out it was actually much cheaper than that.

However, Telstra was quite fail, claiming they were incredibly busy that day –  when there seemed to be only one person “qualified”  to sell contracts to people. Everyone else was just a sales rep who couldn’t actually tell me how long the warranty on my phone is. I’ll quite safely assume it’s one year. There was another person there who was after the Galaxy Nexus, and had apparently been waiting for half an hour to get his hands on one. Eventually he was ushered off to a dark corner to sign his life away, but luckily the sales people realised all I wanted to do was buy it outright, not sign a contract, so they said I could line up and talk to a lady who could do the “simple”  things.

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I did some mostly-impulse shopping and I blame my brother for some of it  🙂

I managed to take some pictures of my Ultrabook,  though it comes with so many names and it doesn’t help that I always try and call it a netbook,  so it actually comes out of my mouth as net-note-laptop-ultra-zenbook or a variant of that.

It’s so shiny and thin!!!! The first thing I did when I walked into JB Hi-fi (because I am old fashioned and need to hold it and take it home) was head straight to it and feel the temperature. I must have looked like a nerd! Or not. On the adapter it had felt pretty hot,  so I was a little worried about whether it’d cook and burn everything. After fiddling with it for a few days now,  the only time it got me worried was playing Skyrim on low quality for about 10 minutes. Other than that,  I love the SSD and sleekness. Do I believe in love at first sight? Only for random luxury items!

There was also a Logitech sale that my brother pointed out to me. I had been considering buying a spare mouse for a while,  but never bothered. But since I was on a spending spree,  I figured a good mouse for $19 was too good to pass up. Just in case my current mouse dies. You never know! While I was at it,  I was also in the market for new earphones with a mic. Mic compulsory. So there were some Ultimate Ears 400vi,  so I bought them. I originally had my eye on some Audio Technica CKS55i cause THEY ARE RED,  but these came up and my brother says the UEs are really good. So I ended up with that too,  and they were shipped super fast!

Now these new earphones are funny because they don’t yet fit my ears. I hope I got the bud size right,  since I tend to fail at a lot of these things. They are a lot warmer and bass-ier than my old cheapo $20 ATs,  so I’m sure I’ll grow to love these too. They also isolate noise moreso than my old ones,  so currently I’m half deaf and yelling at everyone. Probably means I can’t walk around with these in my ears either;  my psychicness is only so good at warning me of oncoming invisible trucks and the like. Ugh.

PIKTUR

So for the last few days I’ve been getting the flavour of oyster in my mouth. These haven’t been cravings – just that my mouth suddenly tastes like the flavour of oyster, which isn’t really pleasant. It’s too fishy and no nice sauce taste, and most of the time there’s that hint of oyster guts. I’m not crazy at all. However,  I should eat some oysters at some point to get rid of this feeling.

Also,  after much yes no yes no, I decided to go get myself a fancy shiny Asus Zenbook,  the UX21 (the better one). Pictures to come! Can’t do it right now as it’s so gloomy that it’s just not right for a photoshoot. Though I can’t figure out whether or not I can photoshoot after a day or few of taking it around and smashing it everywhere.

So it’s just a wall of text today!  😀